Spore - Are you buying?!

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Kasz216 said:

|_emmiwinks said:

Kasz216 said:

twesterm said:

aavidbacon said:
twesterm, you know, don´t you? that the majority of the pirates wouldn´t buy the games if they were to buy the official ones? I live in Brazil, a third world country and I see thi s kind of things everyday. Most of the middle class youngsters have a ps2 and they are on their way to get a new gen consol, but you know how many official games they have ? Very few. The ps2 success in Brazil was due to the easyness to pirate it and the main reason why ps3 will never succeed in here. The games are launched at US$130 here and most of the owners would never buy many games if they didn´t have an option. The wii and x360 can be copied and will make success down here. The pc games are three times cheaper than in the stores. Sometimes they don´t reach the stores, so we are forced to get them pirate or from abroad(like I do). So that story that pirates hurt their sales is BS. The US, EU and Japan(the big markets) are able too enforce the law, and also have a financial status that don´t make games so proibitive. This DRM thing is an agression to the consumer and people should boycot them until they give in.

 

I'm not getting into this argument again so don't even try.  I'll just give you the short answer and I'm just not going to reply after that: that is merely one of the many justifications lies people tell themselves.  The fact they download it shows they want it.

I wouldn't buy a Domino's pizza.  Yet if someone offered me a free one i'd eat it.

Man Domino's pizza sucks.

Demand for a product can often be changed by relative price.  I mean how many people you know have downloaded crappy songs they wouldn't even buy to their computer.  Like top 10 radio crap.

 

 

Hey, I worked for Dominos for 4 and a half years, I take offense. Their pizza can be delicious if made by the right people. Especially the wings, poor the sauce on them, run them through the oven, and put them back in half way. Ooooh so good.

Anyways, this crap about the DRM is rediculous. So it can only be installed 3 times, oh f-ing well. As long as you have the CD Key and UPC code you can call EA and get another 3 times if you run out. They took out the periodic checks, this is better then them doing something rather drastic, like single use codes or streaming something critical from online to play the game period.

Let them boycott it, for about a week and they will buckle and get it, and if they dont, then its their loss.

 

Yeah.  I thought you could get more installs with the CD and UPC.  SO i don't see it as a big deal either.  I don't get how this is supposed to stop piracy either... weird DRM.

 

 

It'll stop the casual pirates, and really I think thats a pretty vast number of pirates. I have a friend that can only barely use torrents to get music. Barely gets mounting CD images to a fictional drive. If it takes a couple patches and cracks and other tweaks for them to get around a DRM he would just have to go buy the game, because I doubt he could get it to work.

Im kind of surprised that a game that is so connected to the web at all times couldnt do some sort of check every time you tried to connect to the EA servers as DRM. I guess thats kind of like the Periodic check. eh, dont know, I just know Im getting it the moment its available, if they dont do a Midnight release on the 6th at my Gamestop then Im hitting refresh on the EA site and downloading it.